One play does job for Wilson, Seattle

1:21 AM,
Jan. 20, 2014

SEATTLE, WA - JANUARY 19: Cornerback Richard Sherman #25 of the Seattle Seahawks tips the ball up in the air as outside linebacker Malcolm Smith #53 catches it to clinch the victory for the Seahawks against the San Francisco 49ers during the 2014 NFC Championship at CenturyLink Field on January 19, 2014 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images)

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Nancy Armour
USA Today

Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks are on their way to the Super Bowl thanks to the young quarterback's completion on a gutsy fourth-down call in the fourth quarter.

It hardly matters that Wilson was perfectly miserable for most of the game, fumbling snaps, making bad throws and spending so much time on the ground he might as well have been a tackling dummy. Or that Seattle's Pete Carroll was outcoached for most of the day by his old nemesis, the San Francisco 49ers' Jim Harbaugh. ...